Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Utilizing Namespaces to Indicate Framework Usage

    When utilizing PureMVC Mediator’s, there are 2 ways I’ve seen people write them. The first way is to have the Mediator call methods on the View, passing data it retrieved from a Proxy. This can also be done from a Command as well. The second way is to actually give the Mediator/Command more responsibility of State management for a particular View, and call more than 1 method on it, doing a lot of code that’s often done in the View.

    Both have the same problem: methods in the View that only PureMVC calls, yet exist for others to inadvertently use because they are public.

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  • Creating Modules in Flash CS4

    You can now create modules in Flash CS4 using AS3.  You couldn’t in CS3, but could in Flash 8 using AS2.  Flash CS4 comes with a new feature in the Publish Settings called “External Library Path”.  What this allows you to do is point to a set of code, and allow you to compile WITHOUT it.  This is almost exactly the same as mxmlc’s (Flex compiler) -load-externs compiler parameter.  We still don’t have -link-report, though, grr….

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  • How to Do a RIA Correctly

    Forrester Research published a (free, usually $750) report on how to do a Rich Internet Applications correctly.  They point to Cynergy as a company that does it right.

    I read it and agreed with everything.  It’s short and to the point.  For more context, read the 2 links below.

  • State of the Flash & Flex Developer Market for 2009

    This is a post I plan to do yearly, every April.  I originally started it (late last year) because at the time, many were attempting to guess the effects of the economy’s slow decline on the Flash & Flex market.  I was hoping it’d help others who were insecure, those who had only been in Flex a short while feel better, or who were just curious what things really were like out there at the time.  I’m not paid by Adobe to do this; I just love the technology and want others to get involved.  Also, I developed a side business, unpaid, where I route recruiters/employers to my network, and my network to them.  I found it interesting to see what people are hiring for, and I feel it helps me keep tabs on what the market it is doing.  Nowadays, you barely ever hear people questioning whether to use Flex or not; rather, it’s mostly on deciding to use it vs. other technologies.  That said, it’s still interesting to me to see how and what the market is doing. 

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